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Title: The Little Café in Copenhagen
Author: Julie Caplin
Genre: Chick-lit
Rating: 4/5
# pages: 410
Date read: April 2020

Welcome to the little cafe in Copenhagen where the smell of cinnamon fills the air and the hot chocolate is as smooth as silk.

Publicist Kate Sinclair’s life in London is everything she thought she wanted: success, glamour and a charming boyfriend. Until that boyfriend goes behind her back and snatches a much sought-after promotion from her.Heartbroken and questioning everything, Kate needs to escape.

Leaving behind rush hour and late nights in the office for a city break in beautiful Copenhagen, Kate discovers how to live life 'the Danish way'. From candles and cozy nights in to the easy smiles of tall, gorgeous Vikings and eating your body weight in pastries (ok, that’s just her), the city offers her a new perspective.

Can the secrets of hygge and happiness lead her to her own happily-ever-after?

I couldn't sleep last night, and needed something to escape into. This fit the bill perfectly! Very sweet, albeit VERY predictable, chick-lit :-) I absolutely loved that so much of it took place in Copenhagen (and that the author is obviously deeply in love with the place), even though the descriptions of Copenhagen was a very amusing mix of "I've obviously been to Copenhagen more than once and know the area I'm writing about" and "Therefore I don't need to do ANY research after the fact and get really simple things wrong" :-P (like getting the name of the central station completely wrong and miss-spelling the main pedestrian street). Ah well, it made me laugh more than anything else, and due to the aforementioned blatant love she has for the place, I can forgive her for it ;-)

The romance itself was predictable as (I'd called it from chapter 2), but in a book like this I really don't mind. Besides, it had so much else going for it than just the romance - charming descriptions of Denmark, growing friendships, and delicious food (so much fun to read a foodie book where I've actually tried most of the things mentioned!). It was unrealistic as, but true to its own universe, so I didn't mind at all.

The ending was slightly trite, but there wasn't really anywhere else it could go, so I'll take it.